Thinking of today's White House gathering of Ticktok 'influencers' and some videos I've been watching about cosmetic plastic surgery where the subjects were referred to as "celebrities and influencers."
Is this the dawn of the age of nondescript influencers whose only purpose is to implant the ideas of the ruling class on the illiterate public?
They're not statesmen or movie stars or musicians or actors or authors; they're not preachers or philosophers or inventors or shamans. They don't do anything at all except well, influence?
This seems so empty, what am I missing?
Interesting thanks. So an influencer is created by algorithmic manipulation, it's an imaginary creation by IT. Hadn't thought about that on the scale of actual real life.
"Influencers" are the virtual equivalent of biological Leninism. They are talentless, and therefore created by and dependent on, the powers who created them, and must remain loyal to retain their position.
I'd say it's even more base than that of "most loyal": they're more like rats adapting to a newly designed maze. Those that can't adapt to the maze get nothing for not reaching the end, and those that do, behave in the way the designers want.
At best, their loyalty is to money; to get money, you need more views; to get views, you need to work the algorithm. The rats don't solve a puzzle because they enjoy finding solutions, they do it for the cheese.
:) saved.
An influencer is like most troons these days.
Failed humans who were unable to actually do anything so moved into a position that leeches off of both the insecurities of the general public and their wallet.
They don't contribute anything, they just give many a sense of "belonging" because for many they lack any tangible group to be part of and despite reassurances by many humans are still social creatures that need a social network of some kind.
Social media exploits that hard and anyone making money off of social media, be that FB, Twitter, or even YT/Tiktok as a talking head, is exploiting the primal desire to part of an in group.